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This photo taken and handout on March 31, 2024 by The Vatican Media shows Pope Francis during the Easter ‘Urbi et Orbi’ message and blessing to the City and the World from the central loggia of St Peter’s basilica in The Vatican. | Photo Credit: AFP Pope Francis urged the world to resist “the logic…
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The aid entering the Gaza Strip by land is far below pre-war levels A military plane banked over the war-ravaged ruins of Gaza City dropping dozens of black parachutes carrying food aid. On the ground, where almost no building within sight was still standing, hungry men and boys raced towards the beach where most of…
The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on March 25 on a resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramzan. The vote comes after Russia and China vetoed a U.S.-sponsored resolution Friday that would have supported “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israeli-Hamas conflict. Also read:…
Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations Amar Bendjama (L) and China’s ambassador to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, vote against a U.S. ceasefire resolution for the Gaza war during a UN Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters on March 22, 2024 in New York City. | Photo Credit: Getty Images via…
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UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini Cairo: The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Monday Israel had blocked him from entering the war-torn and besieged Gaza Strip where the UN has warned of impending famine. UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini said he had “intended to go into Rafah today, but was informed my entry had…
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Palestinian children wait to receive food during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip March 13, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem | Photo Credit: MOHAMMED SALEM One in three children under the age of two in northern Gaza is now acutely malnourished…
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The Open Arms vessel carrying aid sails off the shore of Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from central Gaza Strip, March 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: REUTERS A ship carrying 200 tons of aid approached the coast of Gaza on March 15 in a mission…
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The conflict in Gaza has displaced most of the enclave’s 2.3 million population. Cairo: Israeli fire killed six Palestinians and wounded dozens of others as crowds of residents awaited aid trucks in Gaza City, Gaza health ministry officials said on Thursday. Palestinians were rushing to get aid supplies at the Kuwait roundabout in northern Gaza…
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Donor nations, aid agencies and charities pushed on with efforts on Wednesday to rush food to war-torn Gaza by land, air and sea after the EU top diplomat said starvation had become “a weapon of war”. The Israel-Hamas conflict raging since October 7 has caused mass civilian deaths, reduced vast areas to a rubble-strewn wasteland…
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US-Israel tensions extend beyond the current fighting. (File) The almost-daily phone calls stopped months ago. Now the tensions between Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s war on Hamas have burst into the open as the two leaders bicker publicly. Late last week, the US announced its army would build a pier to bring aid…
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